Asset: Anything tangible or intangible that is capable of being
owned or controlled to produce value and that is held to have
positive economic value
Type of Asset Classes
Equity -- Interest Rate
Bonds -- Art
Currency -- Weather
Commodity -- Real Estate
Equity;-
Shareholders' equity represents the remaining interest in
assets of a company, spread among individual
shareholders of common or preferred stock
stockholders' equity
shareholders' funds
Bonds:-
Bond is a debt security in which
Authorized issuer owes the holders a debt and
Is obliged to pay interest (the coupon) and/or
To repay the principal at a later date,
At termed maturity.
A bond is a formal contract to repay borrowed money with
interest at fixed interval
Issued by government and corporate
Absorbed by Banks, Hedge Funds, Mutual funds etc.
Interest rate Future:-
An interest rate future is a financial derivative (a futures
contract) with an interest-bearing instrument as the
underlying asset.
Interest rate futures are used to hedge against the risk of that
interest rates will move in an adverse direction, causing a cost
to the company.
Commodity:-
A commodity is a good for which there is demand, but which
is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market.
Commodities are substances that come out of the earth and
maintain roughly a universal price.
Fungible, i.e. equivalent no matter who produces it.
Types
Agricultural
Metals
Energy
All these thing belongs to asset.
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